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at Burma in the
Buddhist era 2500, the other Theravada five countries asked Burma whether there was the Tripiṭaka reciter in Burma. Therefore, the Burmese government held the Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations since 1948. The examinations are so difficult that no one could pass until
1006:"တိပိဋကဓရတိပိဋကကောဝိဒ စာမေးပွဲအောင်မြင်တော်မူသည့် တိပိဋကဓရတိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော်ရ ကျောက်ပန်းတောင်းဆရာတော် အပါအဝင် သာသနာအာဇာနည်အရှင်သူမြတ် ၁၀၆ ပါးတို့အား အောင်လက်မှတ်နှင့်ဘွဲ့တံဆိပ်တော်များ ဆက်ကပ်လှူဒါန်းပွဲသို့ နိုင်ငံတော်၏အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တက်ရောက် | Myanmar State Counsellor Office"
161:(or "Three Baskets") both in oral (five levels) and in written components (five levels). The examinations require candidates to display their mastery of "doctrinal understanding, textual discrimination, taxonomic grouping and comparative philosophy of Buddhist doctrine." A
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If one passes three Tipiṭaka, three white
Kanakkadan umbrellas with yellow handle. Sāsanā flag bearing above emblem, Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovidha pass-certificate, and water-land travel upper-class free ticket, monthly rice for alms-food and nāvakamma-vatthu are
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At the reciting part, candidates have to take a text for three days, and four times in the morning, and five times in the afternoon each day (25 minutes and 10-minute break per time). They will be prompted only five times in the whole day.
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If one passes two Piṭaka, two white
Kanakkadan umbrellas with a yellow handle, Sāsanā flag bearing above emblems, degree-certificate, water-land travel upper-class free ticket, rice for every month, and Navakamma-Vatthu money are offered
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is the first title-winner of the Tipiṭakadhara exam in Burma. As of 2020, only 15 monks have passed both the oral and written components, who are recognized by the
Burmese government as "Sāsana Azani" (
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360:) is awarded to those who have passed all levels of the examination. Five years after receiving Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Degree, the
928:"Titles, certificates conferred on winners of 72nd Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Exam | Myanmar State Counsellor Office"
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The whole examinations process takes 33 days in total – from last week of
December to the third week of January – at the
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All texts are taken at the oral-based examination plus its relevant commentaries, sub-commentaries, and treatises.
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The awarded 16 Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida, Tipiṭakadhara
Dhammabhanḍāgārika Sayadaws are as follows.
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To take the examinations, the candidates must be only monks and novices who passed the examinations of
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Sayadaws who have passed five levels of ideology writing are awarded the degree of "Tipiṭakakovida" (
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Mahāpāsāṇa Guhā Cave is where the Tipiṭakadhra Tipiṭakakovida examinations are held annually.
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Those who passed the exam without being prompted are marked as "visiṭṭha" (distinguished).
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If one passes on three Piṭakas, three white
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became the first winner of the exam in 1953, and was appointed the position of
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Kanakkadan umbrellas with red handles.
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If one passes one Piṭaka, a white
Kanakkadan umbrella with a yellow handle.
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3597 pages from the second two
Abhidhammā texts of the Abhidhamma Piṭaka.
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who has passed all levels of the examinations is often referred as the
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Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Examinations, Mahapasana Guha Cave, Yangon
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The recitation content includes a cumulative 8026 pages of Tripiṭaka:
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145:) are the highest-level monastic examinations held annually in
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33 days– from last week of December to third week of January
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1409 pages from the second three texts of the Vinaya Piṭaka
206:(Chief Respondent) to answer the Dhamma questions asked by
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Tipitakadhara Tipitaka Kovida Selection Examination Board,
967:"BBC Burmese – အစီအစဉ်များ – မိုဘီဂျီနိုနဲ့ တိပိဋကဆရာတော်"
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They are offered Sāsanā flags bearing the above emblems.
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Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)
264:779 pages from the three Dīgha Nikāya texts of the
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Tipiṭakadhara Tipiṭakakovida Selection Examinations
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Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture (Myanmar)
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Tipitakadhara Tipitakakovida Selection Examinations
988:"တိပိဋကဓရရွေးချယ်ရေးစာမေးပွဲ – www.mahana.org.mm"
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451:, lit. "Noble Hero of the Buddhist doctrine").
65:five levels of idea by writing (Tipiṭakakovida)
16:Highest level Buddhist monastic exam in Myanmar
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643:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ သီလက္ခန္ဒာဘိဝံသ (မော်ကျွန်းဆရာတော်)
493:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ (မင်းကွန်းဆရာတော်)
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568:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ သုမင်္ဂလာလင်္ကာရ (ဂန္ဓာရုံဆရာတော်)
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690:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဂန္ဓမာလာလင်္ကာရ (မြင်းခြံဆရာတော်)
485:Bhaddanta Vicittasārābhivaṃsa (1911–1993)
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255:851 pages from the first two texts of the
143:တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကကောဝိဒ ရွေးချယ်ရေး စာမေးပွဲ
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618:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဝါယာမိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ (ရေစကြိုဆရာတော်)
1024:"၁၅ ပါးမြောက် သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်ပေါ်ထွန်းပြီ"
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665:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဝံသပါလာလင်္ကာရ (မြင်းမူဆရာတော်)
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63:five levels of reciting (Tipiṭakadhara)
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560:Bhaddanta Sumaṅgalālaṅkāra (1946–2006)
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682:Bhaddanta Gandhamālālaṅkāra (1968 – )
610:Bhaddanta Vāyāmindābhivaṃsa (1955 – )
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657:Bhaddanta Vaṃsapālālaṅkāra (1965 – )
393:If one passes on one Piṭaka, a white
379:Tripitaka expert and Dhamma treasurer
809:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဝီရိယာနန္ဒ (ကမ္ဗောဇဆရာတော်)
585:Bhaddanta Sīrindābhivaṃsa (1943 – )
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712:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ သုနန္ဒ (စွန်းလွန်းဆရာတော်)
593:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ သီရိန္ဒာဘိဝံသ (ယောဆရာတော်)
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787:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဣန္ဒာစရိယ (ဘုတလင်ဆရာတော်)
737:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ဣန္ဒပါလ (ရမ္မာဝတီဆရာတော်)
355:Expert who keeps Tripitaka in mind
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518:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ နေမိန္ဒ (ပခုက္ကူဆရာတော်)
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779:Bhaddanta Indācariya (1964 – )
435:List of Sāsana Azani recipients
270:1390 pages from the first five
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535:Bhaddanta Kosalla (1921–1995)
510:Bhaddanta Neminda (1928–1991)
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149:since 1948, organized by the
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708:Tipiṭakadhara Sunlun Sayadaw
155:tests the candidates' memory
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953:Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd
848:Bhaddanta Paññāsirīlaṅkāra
718:Sulun Vipassanā monastery,
704:Bhaddanta Sunada (1955 – )
599:Mahāvisuddhāruṃ monastery,
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1010:www.statecounsellor.gov.mm
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524:Mahāvisutārāma monastery,
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853:ဘဒ္ဒန္တ ပညာသိရီလင်္ကာရ
549:Pañcanikāya monastery,
411:Ideology written answer
285:Ideology written answer
230:, or lecturer level of
180:The Buddha of Knowledge
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801:Bhaddanta Vīriyānanda
499:Dhammanāda monastery,
309:'s Mahāpāsāṇa Cave in
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195:Sixth Buddhist council
1230:Burmese folk religion
1187:Monastic examinations
916:on 15 September 2017.
362:Government of Myanmar
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1337:Buddhist monasticism
1332:Education in Myanmar
893:on 14 November 2016.
839:Dagon Myothit (East)
827:Kyaukpadaung Sayadaw
743:Tipiṭaka monastery,
624:Tipiṭaka monastery,
214:Eligibility criteria
204:Chaṭṭhasaṅgatisajaka
1285:Freedom of religion
1069:Religion in Myanmar
439:The late Venerable
395:Kanakkadan umbrella
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471:Name in Burmese
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